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I had a gelding who got summer sores every year, though he was healthy, 
happy, and wormed properly and regularly.

He got the sores on his neck, chest and shoulders, and would rub on 
anything to scratch the itch, usually sappy pine trees. Ugh.  So, 
starting before fly season every year (and I lived next to a dairy, so 
fly season was nearly year 'round for us in the NW unless we had a bad 
winter) I would keep the affected areas covered in a mixture of fly 
spray and baby oil.  Yeah, it was messy, but it kept him from turing 
into a mass of pitchy, scabby, oozing skin several months out of the 
year.

I tried fly lotions first, but found they didn't stay on well due to 
sweat.  And the fly spray/oil was much cheaper. I still keep around a 
dish detergent bottle of oil and fly spray for that nasty time in 
summer when the flys go for udders, teats, sheaths, and that little 
strip of ultra tender skin along the belly centerline.  We have these 
nasty little flys (perhaps horn flys?) that will literally cover these 
areas, and draw blood.

Julie


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